Our 2 first weeks in Ubon

We are doing very well in Ubon. The house we moved into the 1^st Oct is a small, very good house for us two. Near to everything. We feel we are position in the center.

The people we meet are welcoming us warmly.  Christians are not many and the Christian ministers are …. too few for the work. Therefore the work is too much for each of them.

We pray that it will be:
a) More serving the living God. Both laymen and clergy. We meet people who as a calling.
b) More delegations to others.
c)  More Life…. into the structures.

May God bless Ubon with a new Life …. in individuals, in the families, in the Churches/organizations and in the communities. Ingvar 

THANK YOU ....God`s People of Chiang Mai

We came to Chiang Mai June 1991 and yesterday morning (after 22 years plus) we left by car for UBON Ratchathani. We look back on a very good and wonderful 22 years chapter working in and out of Chiang Mai together with you.

Thank you all wonderful friends and coworkers in many churches, in many organizations and in the community in Chiang Mai for everything. You have been a great blessing for us.

These are not empty words. We really mean it from our whole heart.

Now a new chapter starts, but we have not forgotten the Chiang Mai one. You are written on our hearts.

We hope to keep in touch also in:
 

                                         (=  Joining our hearts together for Ubon.)

Be blessed from heaven…. in Chiang Mai

Ingvar & Anna  

Saying goodbye

Today I spent sometime sorting through what plants to bring along to Ubon and what plants to leave  for someone else to enjoy. Even this is a 'saying goodbye'. Talking to myself: Maybe they will not appreciate them, maybe the new family cannot wait until the plants brings forth flowers and will just chuck them away. Some orchids only buds once a year. They don't know that this ugly plant is a rare orchid with beautiful flowers. And the ones I have nurtured and multiplied by cuttings, will they  appreciate, the way I do. The huge coffee plant, the  orchids the funny goatshaped leaves, the lillies...
I realize that I cannot expect that any successor will nurture and care the way that I have nurtered and multiplied and loved these plants, because they have not spent their energy and love on them, and there is a high risk of being thrown away before ''they can prove themselves''. The same way the garden speak about the people I have invested in through many years. Many beautiful people, but some came to me quite ugly, messed up, starving for love, beaten and bruised. They were nurtered, loved, fed and some are blooming, others have multiplied but our successors have not seen what they were.
This is part of life. I am entrusting the plants in the hands of the Father. He knows what they were and He knows where they are going.

THANK YOU Sweden

Thank you all good friends in Sweden for these 2½ months. We met many of you and some 20 local churches. GREAT.

You have encouraged us a lot to move on into a new pioneer work. We might not like: Transfers,

transit,
preparation,
training,
planning,
“between-days”
etc
…..but still they are very very important.

We have seen that there is a special anointing and power when the local church sends us out. We feel indeed sent out for a new pioneer work
from the body of Christ in Sweden >>>>>>>>> to the body of Christ Thailand.

Woow. What a divine and high calling.

My believe that: These days we need God more and we need each other more.

Now we are in Chiang Mai 2 weeks staying at Tree of Life. We now want to finish our 22 years in this city ... in the very best way possible. We believe and see that God is calling many in this town to go out to new unreached people who need to get out into God's new freedom. Ingvar

Last Sunday for now in Sweden

Yes... we are doing very well, serving in different ways right now here in Sweden. Today is the last Sunday in a local church and ... tomorrow we are going from Gothenburg and coming to Chiang Mai the 17th.

Yes....on the 1st Oct we are moving to Ubon for a new chapter in our lifes.

Yes....may God bless you all this Sunday. Ingvar

Today 10:32 a Boy is Born in Borås.

                                  
Mr Alfred Sven Trygg was born today 10:32 in Borås. He weighed 4350 grams and was 52 cm long. His arrival was quick this morning and ..... now we have six beautiful grandchildren. Mother Ruth and father Niklas are well. The pediatric nurse/grand-mother Anna is also happy.

Prior to this time in Sweden we had several goals including meeting children and grandchildren also the youngest (now 6 hours old), building a small one room garden house (called Friggebod) and visiting as many Churches as we possible. We have learned over the years to live in different worlds, yet to be 100% present in the one we are in right now. You can say: To be in the same place with the spirit, the soul and the body.

At the same time (it's hard to explain) we are part of the work in Asia. The planning of our new work in Ubon is coming on more and more, and … it feels like we are entering a "fully ripe" but tough task.

Tomorrow we will visit Mantorp. It will be very good to meet our new and old friends there.

Greetings from a happy grandfather. Ingvar

See-Thank God-take courage

We all daily consume courage, hope, encouragement and inspiration. And if we do not refuel, we all will soon run on empty. I am often reminded on the steps Paul took:

Step 1. He saw them
Step 2. He thanked God
Step 3. He took courage.

 

Paul had had a tough journey, but still he had been able to be part of giving new courage to 264 passengers. Now he needed to refill him selves.

It`s looks easy. And maybe.... it's simpler than we often think.

Anna and I are now visiting every weekend several churches in Sweden. In total some18 of them. And the interesting thing is that after every meeting you go home with new courage. Acts 28:15 works.

I have for a long time been dreaming of putting up a small Garden House. Now it is almost ready. We are thankful to many friends who has helped us and ..... for good weather. Some have asked. How does it look? Will tell you more on this after we moved in. We are happy to also, these days, prepare for Ruamchai4Ubon. Ingvar

                                Rune & Birgitta with us at the first "fika" in the house.